linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] asus-laptop: add Lenovo SL LenovoCare LED support

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:14:23 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>
Cc:	Ike Panhc <ike.pan@...onical.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asus-laptop: add Lenovo SL LenovoCare LED support

On Thu 2009-12-10 11:38:00, Corentin Chary wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> > On Tue 2009-12-08 15:26:09, Ike Panhc wrote:
> >> From: Ike Panhc <ikepanhc@...onical.com>
> >>
> >> This patch is to enable the LenovoCare LED support on Lenovo SL laptop. Based
> >> on the found of the control interface by Alexandre Rostovtsev
> >>
> >> Turn on the LenovoCare LED:
> >>  (As root privileges) echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:LenovoCare/brightness
> >> Trun off the LenovoCare LED:
> >>  (As root privileges) echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:LenovoCare/brightness
> >>
> >> The patch against current checkout of acpi4asus is below.
> >
> > Is the driver severely misnamed by now? I believe Lenovo and ASUS are
> > pretty different firms...
> >
> 
> Lenovo ship DSDT with similar ATKD interace.
> See http://git.iksaif.net/?p=acpi4asus.git;a=commitdiff;h=31a38147625c283b58137db45e7507cd1e49aa05
> 

So what? Rename the driver... having Asus::lenovocare led is just wrong.

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